Improvement in under-clothing for women



SUSAN T. CONVERSE.

Underclothing for Women.

Patented Aug 3,1875.

UNITED STATES Pn'rnnr nrron SUSAN TAYLOR CONVERSE, OF WOBURN, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN UNDER-CLOTHING FOR WOMEN.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 166,190, dated August 3, 1875; application filed October 31, 1874.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SUSAN TAYLOR OoN- VERSE, of Woburn, Massachusetts. have invented certain Improvements in Under-Clothing for Women, of which the following is a specification:

In the drawings, Figure l is a front eleva tion, and Fig. 2 a partial rear elevation, of a garment embodying my-invention.

The main feature of my invention consists of a garment formed of a body or waist open waist-pieces a b 0, band cl, and back-pieces e,

and insert in the opening thus left the breastpieces B B. These breast-pieces are. gathered at top and bottom to give the necessary fullness in one direction, and are cut curved either at top or bottom, or both to give the neces sary fullness in the other direction, and the front end is out shorter than the rear end to hold the breast-pieces in such position as to form a receptacle, thereby allowing the breast to lie undisturbed by other clothing, and free from irritation by the movements of the body while in exercise. I secure to the body of the garment two or more rows of buttons. Each button is sewed through several thicknesses of cloth, placed opposite the button upon the under side of the garment. .This prevents the buttons being torn 011' in wear or Washing. The upper row of buttons is at the waist-line, the others below the first, each row being at such a distance from the other as not to ob struct the buttoning on of other garments. By this arrangement the Waistband of the under-skirt is below the waistband of the skirt next above it, and so of all of the waistbands, each is below that of the skirt outside of it, instead of having the waistband of all the under-clothing on the same level, and one overlapping the other, which overlapping makes an unhealthful thickness of material around the waist, and also taxes one part of the human form with the weight of nearly all the clothing.

What I claim as my invention isl. The garment above described, consisting of the body A, the breast-pieces B B, and leg-pieces D D, constructed and arranged together as described.

2. In combination with a body-garment, the breast-pieces B B, curved and gathered at top or bottom, or both, and having the front end cut shorter than the rear end, all as and for the purpose specified.

3. The body composed of the waist-pieces a b c, back-pieces e, band d, and suitable neckpieces A, and breastpieces B, the band extending below the abdomen, and the whole fitted closely to the form, and acting as an abdominal supporter.

. S. T. CONVERSE.

Witnesses:

JULIA MOULTON, J. P. CONVERSE. 

